The Delivery Man
- Button My Lip
- Country Darkness
- There's A Story In Your Voice
- Either Side Of The Same Town
- Bedlam
- The Delivery Man
- Monkey To Man
- Nothing Clings Like Ivy
- The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love
- Heart Shaped Bruise
- She's Pulling Out The Pin
- Needle Time
- The Judgement
- The Scarlet Tide
- The Monkey
Button My Lip
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
The whole song is one chord: F#
Country Darkness
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
Riff [A] [D][E][E/B][A] (The "B" bass note is a very quick note right after the E chord) Intro: Riff 3x This tattered document [Riff][Bm][C#m] [E] A mystery you can [C#m] solve [F#][G#][C#m] Some burnt out [E] filament [E][B7][E] [E] Flies still buzzing around the [Bm] bulb [C#m][Bm] [E] Country [Bm] Darkness [C#m][Bm] [Riff] He thought of traveling [Riff][Bm][C#m] [E] Heard an approaching [C#m] train [F#][G#][C#m] Drown out his desperate [E] pulse [E][B7][E] [E] A song with no [Bm] refrain [C#m][Bm] [E] Country [Bm] Darkness [C#m][Bm] [D] She [Bm] daydreams of [A]forbidden sins There must be [A] some[A/B]thing [A/C#]more [D] The prison she [B7]lives in The [G] one with the open [E]door [C] [F] [Dm] [E] [A] [Riff] The veil is covering [Riff][Bm][C#m] [E] A glistening and cruel [C#m] blade [F#][G#][C#m] Suffer little [E] children [E][B7][E] Repent, unfaithful [Bm] maid [C#m][Bm] [E] Country [Bm] Darkness [C#m][Bm]
There's A Story In Your Voice
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
[G] Once [C] upon [G] another time [G] If you [C] had the [G] need I'd [D] step right in the [A] shoes that you've been [D] walking [G][D] [G]'Cos someone [C] put the [G] hurt in you [G] For every [C] one to [G] see And you [D] only have to [A] speak to tell your [D] fortune [G][D] There's a [G] story in your [G7] voice Both by [C] damage and by [Am] choice It tells of [G] promises [C] and [G] pleasure And a [G] tale of [C] wine and [G] woe The [G] uneasy [C] time to [G] come [D] And the long way [A] 'round we go to [D] get there [G][D] Once you told me fairytales Everybody knows But I didn't care for their prediction Now you say you're leaving me And packing up your clothes I finally see you were a work of fiction There's a story in your walk Then you crumble just like chalk And I could say that I was sorry But I wouldn't mean it much There are pages I can't touch And something that's been torn out of this chapter [C] Far away, not far enough [G]'Cos I can still recall [D]How it felt when I read that last [G] sentence [/a][/b] [C]Now I go inside some rooms with [G]Gideon in [G/F#]them [Em] all And [A] hide myself from all hope of [D] repentance There's a story in your eyes Cheap sunglasses might disguise But when the bedroom light reveals All that bravado and that fright That you cover up in spite Attempts to strip away this fabrication There's a story in your voice Both by damage and by choice It tells of promises and pleasure And a tale of wine and woe The uneasy time to come And the long way 'round we go to get there
Either Side Of The Same Town
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[G] Nothing will [Em] ever be the [G] same [G][Gsus][G] All of the [Em] promises we made seem [G] hollow But there are [Am] still streets in this town [G] Marked [C] with your shadow [G] So if you see me, [Em] look surprised [G][Gsus][G] If you [Em] don't, then [G] pass me by And I [Am] may even touch your sleeve [G] [C] As you [G] turn to leave [/a][/b] Now it's [C] hard to act like [Em] strangers When we [F] used to be so [Dm] strong [C/G] Everything is [Em] changing [F] And most of it is [Dm] wrong [G] What do we know of [E7] anything? Two [Am] fools of [G] some [F] renown [D7] Either [C] side, either [G] side of the same [Am] town [G][F] [D7] Either [C] side, either [G] side of the same [C] town [F][F/E][C] Somewhere, there's a light I can sense it Oh, though I may fall back again Although it's a fight I know I must remain Now it's hard to keep ignoring Someone you recognize And if I seem contented It's only my disguise What do we know of anything? Two fools of some renown Either side of the same town
Bedlam
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
Main Riff D -------2-4-4>5-5-5-5p4p2--------2-4-2-- A -0-0-0--------------------0-0-0--------- A7 xxx989 Where there is "No Chord' [N.C.] just rake the strings percussively. Intro: Main Riff 2x I've got this [A7] phosphorescent portrait of gentle [A7] Jesus meek and mild I've got this [A7] harlot that I'm stuck with carrying [A7] another man's child The solitary [A7] star announcing vacancy burnt [A7] out as we arrived They'd throw us [A7] back across the border if they [A7] knew that we survived And they [D]were surprised to see us So they [F#m] greeted us with palms They [D] asked for ammunition, acts of [F#m] contrition and small alms [N.C.] I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I [D] lay down on an iron frame [F#m] Found myself in bedlam [N.C.] I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise [D] Wailing echoes down the corridors Main Riff 2x I've got this [A7] imaginary radio, and I'm [A7] punching up the dial I've got the [A7] A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't [A7] blow up in my eye And every[A7]thing that I thought fanciful and [A7] mocked as too extreme Must be [A7] family entertainment here in the [A7] strange land of my dreams Now I'm [D] practicing my likeness of [F#m] St. Francis of Assisi For [D] if I hold my hand outstretched A [F#m] little bird comes to me [N.C.] I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I [D] lay down on an iron frame [F#m] Found myself in bedlam [N.C.] Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars [D] Wailing echoes down the corridors Main Riff 2x [E] The player piano picks out "Life Goes On" Ring tone rang out "Jerusalem" And in this pit of sadness Where the rank of wretched plunge We've buried all the innocents Now we must bury revenge Main Riff 2x They've got this [A7] scared and decorated girl strapped to the [A7] steel trunk of a mustang And then they [A7] drove her down a cypress grove where traitors [A7] hang and stars still spangle They dangled [A7] flags and other rags along a [A7] coloured thread of twine And then they dragged that [A7] bruised and purple heart along the [A7] road to Palestine [D] Someone went off muttering, he [F#m] mentioned thirty pieces [D] Easter saw a slaughtering, each [F#m] wrapped in bloodstained fleeces Then my [D] thoughts returned to vengeance, but I [F#m] put up no resistance Though I [D] seemed a long way from my home It [F#m] really was no distance [N.C.] And I might recite a small prayer If I ever said them I [D] lay down on an iron frame [F#m] Found myself in bedlam [N.C.]Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors And he knew the consequences, but he won't accept the cause [D] Wailing echoes down the corridors Main Riff
The Delivery Man
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
For the verse chords, play the bass strings only. This version is in standard tuning; the version on the album is not. [E] "Abel was able," so Vivian [A] said Her [B] shoulders flung forward Her lips in a [E] purse She talks like the beauty that she never [A] was Of the [B] fabulous wild nights that she never [E] has In a certain [D] light he looked like [E] Elvis In a certain [D] way he feels like [E] Jesus [E] Everyone dreams of him just as they [A] can But he's [B] only the humble Delivery [E] Man G ----12-10-7-9-----14?-12-10-7-9-----14 [E] Geraldine blushes and brushes [A] away The [B] cigarette ashes that Vivian [E] scatters Stares out of the window at the things that she [A] says While [B] gossip within her competes with the [A] widow Ever since he's [D] gone, she feels like [E] crying all the time She knows for [D] sure Vivian is [E] lying Now she has a daughter to raise as she [A] can She [B] just wouldn't trust that Delivery [E] Man G ----12-10-7-9- [C] Ivy puts down the [Am] ghost story she's reading Looks [G] up at that face on the wall G -12-10-7-9- [C] Thinking about how her [Am] father lay [G] bleeding [C] Shot in the back 'cos [Am] orders were [G] misleading And how a [C] flag and a medal don't [Am] have any meaning On the [E] 5th of July as they tore down the [A] fair And he'd [B] seen all the local girls who were worth [E] kissing With the smell of the gunpowder still in the [A] air They [B] noticed that Abel and Ivy were [E] missing In a certain [D] light he looked like [E] Elvis In a certain [D] way he seemed like [E] Jesus He said "Why can't we be kind to me like you were [A] meant to be? When [B] they let me out, I had a brand new [E] identity. Now everyone dreams of me just as they [A] can. [B] I want to be your Delivery [E] Man."
Monkey To Man
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Riff E -----0-2-0-----0-- B -0-3-------3-3---- Dsus xx0332 [E]A long time ago, our point of view Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew And now the world is full of sorrow and pain And it's time for us to speak up again You're slack and sorry Such an arrogant brood The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food We sit here staring at your pomp and pout [A7] Outside the bars we use for keeping you out [B7] You've taken everything that you wanted Broke it up and plundered it and hunted Ever since we said it You went and took the credit It's been [A7] headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man [E][E7][A][B7] Monkey to Man Riff [E]Every time man struggles and fails He makes up some kind of fairytales After all of the misery that he has caused He [A7] denies he's descended from the dinosaurs [B7]Points up to heaven with cathedral spires All the time indulging in his base desires Ever since we said it He went and took the credit It's been [A7] headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man [E][E7][A][B7] Monkey to Man [D]Big [A] and useless as he has become With his [D][A]crying statues and his flying bomb [D]Goes [A]'round acting like the chosen one [Dsus]Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin [E]He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes Fills up the air with his pride and praise He's a [A7] big disgrace to our beastly ways [B7]In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts Ever since we said it He went and took the credit It's been [A7] headed this way since the world began When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
Nothing Clings Like Ivy
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[C] Nothing clings like [F] Ivy Frightened [Am]by the dark [E7]Though she cuts [A]deep [Dm]It never leaves a [G] mark No one quite like Ivy Ever gets it straight What she believes She won't negotiate [G] All the [G7]words of [C] tenderness [F] That [G]never [D/F#] quite got [D/F]through She [G] said "You [G7]know how [C] young girls [F]are From [G] my contempt [D/F#] for [D/F] you." Outside in the hollow She may dare herself For there may be A serpent in the grass Nothing clings like Ivy Trying to scare herself And it may strike or Wait for her to pass All the words of tenderness That she never possessed "So what's the use of promises? I had my fingers crossed." All the words of tenderness That never quite got through She said, "I laughed behind your back When I told them to you." Nothing clings like Ivy Frightened by the dark Though she cuts deep It never leaves a mark
The Name Of This Thing Is Not Love
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Am x02210 Am(sus) x02110 [Em]There's a part of this feeling that I just cannot kill But the [Em] name of this [D] thing is not [G] love And I [C]can't take a [Bm]potion, and I [Am]won't take a pill So it [F#]tortures me [B7]still But the [Em]name of this [D]thing is not [G]love Then you [Am]start [Am(sus)]entertaining such a [Am]terrible [Am(sus)]thought Life is [Am]so very short And the [Em]name of this [D]thing is not [G]love There's a bruise on her arm And some blood on the floor But the name of this thing is not love And they're taunting some girl That they claim to adore She can't take anymore But the name of this thing is not love Who in the world do you think that you are? That you pushed me this far But the name of this thing is not love Bridge [C][Bm][Am][Bm] 2x He [Dm]thinks of her still Although [G]you'd never guess [/a][/b] [C]He's trying [Dm]so to [B7]forget [C]her The [Dm]occasional moments that [G]he'll always bless [F]Watching her dress [Dm]For worse or [G] better He watched her pick over her broken playthings What played on his mind is not love The cast aside tokens and discarded rings Over one of his flings But the name of this thing is not love Then he threw something down in the wild rushing river And won't ever recover But the name of this thing is not love Then you start out pretending that you're so very tough Life is not short enough But the name of this thing is not love
Heart Shaped Bruise
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
[A] Tell me [D]now Or [G] are you only [D]teasing? I felt the cold hard facts [F#m]of life [G] Five degrees from [A]freezing Does it [G]amuse you to always[A] hurt me [D]so? I try my [G]best it's not enough Should I [A]give up and let you? [D]What more is there to [G]take from me? There's nothing [D] else to [G]give you, dear There's nothing [D] more that [G] I can lose [C] Except this [D] Heart Shaped [G] Bruise It will [C#m]fade [A]From purple to[D] violet It will [C#m]fade [A]Just as the [D]day dissolves [G]into [A]twilight Tell me now Or am I only dreaming? You said that you'd be mine for life And now you say you're leaving If I could hold you once more before you go When I approach you just lash out Should I give up and let you? What more is there to take from me? There's nothing else to give you, dear There's nothing more that I can lose Accept this Heart Shaped Bruise It will fade from purple to violet It will fade? She's pulling out the pin
She's Pulling Out The Pin
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Intro: [G][C][F] 2x She's [G] pulling out the pin [C] That lets her [F] hair fall [Bb] down [Am] She shakes her [D] head and [G] It goes tumbling [C] Her smile was [F] out of [Bb] place So she [Am] swept it off her [D7] face [D7] Let me find the words and say them Like some [D7] softly whispered Amen [Bb7] As she [D#] starts to pull away And the [Cm] lights begin to dim Is she [Bb] thinking of me Or is she [D7] thinking of him She's [D#] pulling out the [Bb] pin [G] She's slipping off the hook [C] Unbutto[F]ning her [Bb] dress [Am] There's just [D] enough to [G] make some man [/a] a [/b] mess [C] She tears [F] away the [Bb] veil [Am] With her finger[D7]nails [D7] She came out high and kicking While the band played "Hey good lookin'" Do you hear something ticking? [Bb7] [D#] Did somebody tell her? You can [Cm] really be redeemed [Bb] Could she actually be? As [D7] desperate as she seems She's [D#] tearing at the [Bb] seams She's [D#] going to [Bb] extremes Nobody [D#] told her it was a [Bb] sin So she's [D#] pulling out the pin [D7] [Eb][F][Bb][C][C][D7] [G] She's taping up her hands [C] Just as a [F] boxer [Bb] will [Am] They started [D] laughing [G] But if looks [/a] could [/b] kill [C] She'd take them [F] down right [Bb] now [Am] She's cover[D]ing her [G] mouth With someone or [C] without There's nothing [F] more to [Bb] say This [Am]is her wedding [D7] day [D7] Full of shattered glass and mayhem Not one softly whispered amen [Bb7] She's [D#] knocking down some doors And the [Cm] smoke begins to fill Where the [Bb] world without her ends And the [D7] next one begins She's [D#] pulling out the [Bb] pin
Needle Time
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For the verse, alternate between [D] and [D7] [D7] I wish that I didn't hate you Least not as much as I do And squander all my contempt for A little nothing like you [A7] Liars like you are [G7] ten-a-penny [A7] Women would slap you, if you [G7]knew any [D7] Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime [D7] I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense These twenty-seven or so years You'd think I (would have) made them some cents [A7]Now they want me fingerprinted [G7]Like I was smuggling drugs [A7]While the government does deals with [G7] the most convenient thugs [D7]Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's [G] Needle [D] Time Riff A -?7-5?3-0- I'm trying not to despise you with a passion that is hard to extinguish Or maybe I really love you Although it's hard to distinguish I wish I could be A little more like a saint is Forgiving those who trespass against us Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime I started talking nonsense, just like I did to begin with Around the time I tired of those sour English Sometimes I feel just like committing a crime It's Needle Time
The Judgement
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Riff: e -0-3-7-5-3-2-3-2-0- The [C]accused will rise [G]To be torn in two [Am]Guilty of nothing but [F] loving you This is the [C] Judgement [Em][C] And I'm [Am] willing [G] to [C]plead Now [Am] you don't [G] want [C] me [Dm] Hoping this [C] torment will [G] cease Will I be [C] released? [Em][C] There'll be lies There'll be tears A jury of your peers With the pitiful look of experience Hand down the Judgement And if I've done wrong And loved you too long Stand up and just testify How can you deny it? [F]Objection overruled [C]I wait for my reprieve [Dm]With trust of the deceived [G]The wisdom of the fooled Is his sorrowful face too heavy for his head? 'Cos he bowed it as something hung over him It was the Judgement And he falls to his knees "Have mercy on me." He clings to the hem of her gown She says, "Just take him down."
The Scarlet Tide
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
This song is played on a ukulele in the key of D. The easiest way to play it on the guitar is w/a capo on the 7th fret and using the chords below. [G][G/C][G] Well, I [G]recall his [G/C]parting [G]words Must I [G7]accept his [C]fate? Or [D]take [G]myself far [C]from this [D]place I thought I [G]heard a [G/C]black bell [G] toll A little [G7]bird did [C]sing [D]"Man has no [G]choice When[C] he wants [D]everything."[G][G/C][G] We'll rise above the [G/C]scarlet [G]tide That trickles [G7]down through the [C]mountain And[D] separ[G]ates the [C]widow [D]from the [G]bride[G/C][G] Man goes beyond his [G/C]own [G]decision Gets caught up [G7]in the [C]mechanism Of [D]swindlers[G] who [C]act like [D]kings And brokers [G]who break [C]everything[D] The dark of [G]night was [G/C]swiftly [G]fading Close to the [G7]dawn of [C] day Why [D]would I [G]want him just to [C]lose him [G]again?[G/C][G] We'll rise above the scarlet tide That trickles down through the mountain And separates the widow from the bride
The Monkey
Chords submitted by Jeffrey Schulberg
Riff A -0h1h2--- E -------0- The whole song is the riff and then an [E/G#] played like this: xx6454